Snark Attack

Published 10:00 pm, Friday, March 10, 2006

South Dakota tourism officials are worried their state will be boycotted by pro-choice supporters now that legislators have banned abortion (even in the case of rape and incest). I doubt it: Plenty of visitors will want to see the new U.S. headquarters of the Taliban.

Let's hear it for retired Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O'Connor. She said unnamed members of Congress went too far in their attacks against the federal judiciary. Nina Totenberg of NPR News, who attended O'Connor's speech, reports that O'Connor said this nation "must be ever vigilant against those who would strong-arm the judiciary into adopting their preferred policies." O'Connor warned that any nation could fall into dictatorship and said the safest course is by "avoiding these beginnings."

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A King County building manager has been on paid leave for 16 months while waiting to see if she gets fired, racking up $132,000 in pay. Even baseball's slow machinations may resolve new steroid allegations against Barry Bonds faster. Then again, as high as the manager's pay sounds to most of us, Bonds earns about that much each game.